Long accommodation block beside a red-earth road at the RUSAL bauxite mine camp in Guinea

Guinea · 2023

RUSAL Bauxite Mine Accommodation Camp Guinea

A mining accommodation camp delivered as detachable container modules — dormitories, sanitary and facility blocks assembled quickly on a prepared pad, with finished interiors and corridors ready on arrival.

180Modules

1–2Storeys

2023Delivered

Mining campUse

Client background

Who the Project Was For

COBAD, part of the RUSAL group, operates bauxite mining in Guinea. The camp supports mine operations on a site where the working day starts a long way from any town.

Client — COBAD – RUSAL

Project challenge

What Had to Be Solved

Deliver a complete accommodation camp — sleeping, sanitary and facility buildings — that could be assembled quickly on a prepared pad and be habitable almost immediately after erection.

Customer pain points

The Pressures on This Project

Time between arrival and occupation

Every day between the containers landing and the camp opening is a day of accommodation paid for somewhere else.

Sanitary provision on a remote site

Fitting out wet rooms locally is slow and hard to inspect.

Mixed building types on one order

Dormitories, sanitary blocks and facility buildings usually come from different suppliers with different grids.

Red-earth site conditions

Haul roads and site conditions are hard on anything shipped fully assembled.

Our solution

What We Supplied and Why

180 detachable container modules covered every building in the camp — dormitory, sanitary and facility blocks — on a single grid and a single erection sequence.

Interiors and corridors were finished in Weifang, so the buildings arrived complete rather than as shells requiring local fit-out.

Blocks were arranged as single and two-storey rows to suit the prepared pad, with external circulation keeping internal areas fully usable.

Pad preparation and services at the RUSAL camp site — A prepared pad and service routes were ready before the modules arrived.

Finished internal corridor inside the RUSAL camp accommodation — Corridors and interiors were completed at the factory, not on site.

Accommodation row with water storage in service at the camp — Water storage was sized around the sanitary and facility blocks.

Manufacturing process

How It Was Built and Shipped

Camp layout

Building positions, circulation and service routes were drawn and approved before fabrication.

Fabrication and fit-out

Frames cut, welded and galvanised; interiors, corridors and sanitary fittings installed and tested.

Packing

Modules knocked down flat and loaded to a container plan with photo reports.

Assembly

Modules opened, combined and bolted up on the prepared pad.

Supply chain coordination

Getting It There in the Right Order

The camp shipped as a planned sequence of containers so the site could erect continuously rather than sorting a yard full of unrelated parts.

Quality control

What Was Checked

Material and fittings checked against the approved camp specification
Frame geometry inspected before galvanising
Sanitary services water tested before knock-down
Photo report issued before each container was sealed

Final result

What Was Delivered

A 180-module accommodation camp with dormitories, sanitary and facility blocks assembled on a prepared pad, with finished interiors and corridors ready on arrival.

Customer benefit

What It Changed

Short time between the containers landing and the camp being occupied.
Sanitary blocks built and water tested in the factory rather than fitted out on a remote site.
One supplier and one grid across every building type in the camp.